High Quality Photography in the digital age?

https://www.benhorne.com/#/with-trees/ ; I've been wondering for quite a while whether or not I could achieve similar results with a digital camera! It's not going to be easy, given that as of now I only practically have a compact camera with a 1" sensor, but hey, I'm definitely down for the challenge of reproducing photos accurately!!! Maybe it's just me, but there's something special about this kind of photography; I think it has to do with the fact that lens of a large focal length was used. The photos seem relatively flat than normal, but paradoxically, that seems to really make the image extraordinary. I wish that I could have such expensive, hard to obtain equipment, to experiment with and compare to that of traditional digital cameras. I wonder how the Dynamic Range compares with that of digital! I also enjoy photos that include in them depth; not necessarily just depth of field, but it seems as though some lenses supposedly have more "depth" to them, even when set at the same settings. Wide angle lenses are perhaps too much hype these days; sure they provide immense depth of field at times, however, I enjoy the fact the telephoto lenses can produce such flat images, more or less free of distortion. Personally, in my photographic pursuits, I'm still struggling with technical stuff as it applies to my photos, such as diffraction and especially refraction for getting photos of ever smaller things.